Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The Wednesday Afternoon Talk

As I expected, we were able to listen to everything Musk had to say in SSB & BPA Video Conference. It's here:


As is the case with all online meetings, there's some wasted time at the beginning, in this case with a video about Starship that they can't get the sound working on. Elon first starts really talking at about 4 minutes in.

The majority of the hour and ten minutes is questions from the people in the conference.  They ask Musk some interesting questions and it's rather clear they don't know much about Starship or the massive changes that could come with a vehicle as disruptive as it looks to be.  

There's some sort of automated speech capture system that takes what the people are saying and converts it to text along the bottom of the screen.  It's wrong most of the time. Some of them are funny but most are just wrong.   

 

EDIT 11/18/21 1630 EST:  Massive change to the post.  The video was replaced and all references to times and details in the video deleted or changed.  

At some point this afternoon, the video was changed to being private, presumably by the National Academies of Science SSB & BPA who conducted the conference.  A search for a replacement yielded this one from a place called Space Span.  As with the original, it's an hour long talk but worthwhile.



2 comments:

  1. Um, yeah. I was thinking that my phone would have done a better job translating the words.

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